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Alcorn McBride Aids Las Vegas Mob Museum

The Mob Museum

Alcorn McBride Aids Las Vegas Mob Museum

LAS VEGAS – The city’s newest attraction, the Mob Museum, tell the tales of both organized crime and law enforcement. The museum is using a full inventory of Alcorn McBride equipment for audio, video and show control throughout its historic 1930’s location, a former federal courthouse and post office.

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Carmen

HSL Supplies Lighting for Israeli Opera’s Carmen

MASADA, Israel – HSL sent crew and more than 500 lighting fixtures to the Dead Sea for the third consecutive year to service the 2012 Israeli Opera Festival at Masada, which premiered a production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” Working in the desert with the heat, dust and hostile terrain offered challenges, with plenty of cable runs and other infrastructure having to be buried into the ground.

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Swank AV Honored By Meeting Professionals

ST. LOUIS – Swank Audio Visuals was honored June 14 as Supplier Partner of the Year by the St. Louis Area Chapter of Meeting Professionals International (MPI). On the same occasion, Lisa Schmidt, director of business development for Swank’s Event Services division, received a scholarship to attend MPI’s World Education Congress.

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The Clock installation

Jands Staging Brings The Clock In On Time

SYDNEY – Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour video collage that is attracting audiences in the art world. Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art hosted the Southern Hemisphere premiere of the piece, working with Jands’ staging department to create the proper curtained cinema environment for the three-month art installation.

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LD Kieran Healy Keylights Idol with Prism’s RevEAL LED Profiles

LOS ANGELES — For this season’s American Idol, LD Kieran Healy has added Prism Projection’s RevEAL LED Profiles to keylight the three judges -Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson – as they sat at their table. “The light provided me with a beautiful, flat field and … I could choose any color temperature that I wanted—and maintain that balance,” Healy says.

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Big Comedy Night

Entec Scopes Out Big Comedy Night

LONDON – Entec Sound & Light supplied full technical production and crew for the recent Big Comedy Night event for charity Scope at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The line-up included a rare stand-up appearance by comedian Ben Elton, plus a host of other high profile acts.

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Mike Gillis

Mike Gillis Joins A.C.T Lighting Canada

TORONTO – Mike Gillis has joined A.C.T Lighting Canada as its new salesperson. Gillis began in the industry as a teenager, moving up to owning medium-sized lighting rigs, and in the late 80s/early 90s, he opened Phase Lighting followed by Profile Technoloiges. He most recently worked at TMB.

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Titanic ceremonies

Titanic Weekend for PSI

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Irish lighting rental company Production Services Ireland (PSI) became fully embroiled in the weekend commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the world’s most famous cruise ship: Titanic. They supplied lighting, rigging and crew to three major events to mark this moment in maritime history. On the same weekend, PSI also supplied lighting to three major boxing and wrestling events, so it proved a real brain-teaser for logistics and pre-planning and left PSI’s Belfast warehouse bare.

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